Fast Methods for Computing the $p$-Radius of Matrices

  • Authors:
  • Raphaël M. Jungers;Vladimir Y. Protasov

  • Affiliations:
  • raphael.jungers@uclouvain.be;v-protassov@yandex.ru

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The $p$-radius characterizes the average rate of growth of norms of matrices in a multiplicative semigroup. This quantity has found several applications in recent years. We raise the question of its computability. We prove that the complexity of its approximation increases exponentially with $p$. We then describe a series of approximations that converge to the $p$-radius with a priori computable accuracy. For nonnegative matrices, this gives efficient approximation schemes for the $p$-radius computation.